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<blockquote data-quote="Carnivorous_Bean" data-source="post: 4601130" data-attributes="member: 57974">Judging by the fact that the Aztecs had an extremely violent, militaristic culture .........whose governmental system was organized around continually attacking the neighboring tribes and taking thousands of them for sacrifice and cannibalism ......... that ritual self-mutilation was a regular part of their upper class lifestyle, that flayed skins were frequently worn as garments by priests, nobles, and anyone else wanted to get in on the supposedly beneficial effects of wearing them .... .... that Aztec poetry includes such imagery as &quot;how my heart yearns for the flowery death!&quot; (that is, death in battle) .... .... that their temples included statues 10 or 12 feet tall, made out of a special kind of flour kneaded up with human blood ........ that their city included a colossal &quot;tzompantli,&quot; or skull rack, in the main square, where 20,000 severed heads could be displayed at a time for public edification, terrorizing, or whatever .... .... and that they were defeated mainly because their neighbors were so utterly sick of their constant predation and tyranny that they either sided directly with the Spaniards or sent no help to the Aztecs, because they wanted them destroyed .... .... I kind of wonder if the image of the Aztecs as a scary, militaristic bunch who needed to be stopped can be classified quite so easily as a 'bad stereotype.' <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Carnivorous_Bean, post: 4601130, member: 57974"] Judging by the fact that the Aztecs had an extremely violent, militaristic culture .... .....whose governmental system was organized around continually attacking the neighboring tribes and taking thousands of them for sacrifice and cannibalism .... ..... that ritual self-mutilation was a regular part of their upper class lifestyle, that flayed skins were frequently worn as garments by priests, nobles, and anyone else wanted to get in on the supposedly beneficial effects of wearing them .... .... that Aztec poetry includes such imagery as "how my heart yearns for the flowery death!" (that is, death in battle) .... .... that their temples included statues 10 or 12 feet tall, made out of a special kind of flour kneaded up with human blood .... .... that their city included a colossal "tzompantli," or skull rack, in the main square, where 20,000 severed heads could be displayed at a time for public edification, terrorizing, or whatever .... .... and that they were defeated mainly because their neighbors were so utterly sick of their constant predation and tyranny that they either sided directly with the Spaniards or sent no help to the Aztecs, because they wanted them destroyed .... .... I kind of wonder if the image of the Aztecs as a scary, militaristic bunch who needed to be stopped can be classified quite so easily as a 'bad stereotype.' :) [/QUOTE]

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